Doesn't work on RTL layouts

[darsain]

Doesn't work on RTL layouts

[darsain]

There is no support for RTL, and I don't know if there ever will be. Maybe if I'll encounter a day where I'll have reeeally nothing else to do.

[tsi]

I assume this day hasn't arrived yet.
I'd like to help with that, any pointers?

[darsain]

Rather not. Sly needs to be rewritten, there is a lot of issues with it right now, so modifying current version is a time wasted.

The rewrite will change the way how sly works and implementing RTL shouldn't be a problem. No ETA though. It has already been on a back burner for half a year now. Paying the bills has a priority right now :/

[exside]

RTL support would not only be nice for rtl languages but also if you want to maintain a good content/markup structure, e.g. the topmost item of the list would be the most recent item (item 0 = newest), that need a float:right instead of float:left on the li's but sly gets confused with that...

and what would you consider as "lot of issues"? Just starting with using sly so I'm not sensitive to problems yet =)

[darsain]

Issues are mostly in the design and structure of Sly. If you don't mind how it works and what it is right now, that there are no issues for you.

But in general:

1. It's a jQuery plugin.
2. Inlines stuff that should be left for dependencies (when rewritten from jQ plugin into a proper component).
3. Because of the speed optimization oversight, it requires an intermediate slidee element.
4. Tries to do a lot of stuff, like scrolling basic content, or even parallax...
5. Tries to do even more by going crazy with options for things that should be left for code, like buttons, automated cycling, the whole "active item" logic... all these things should be left for developers to implement with Sly's API, it shouldn't be a magical option.

Sly was written in old days when jQuery was a good choice for web development, thus it's written badly and bloated with stupid shit :)